Steel tie



May 27, 1924. 1,495,288

J. B. WILSON STEEL TIE Filed Feb. lO 1922 gru/manto@ Jf M502;

Patented May 27, 1924.

Uni-TED sr JOSHUA B. WILSON, `Oli MANILA, ALABAIVIA.

STEEL TIE.

Application filed February 10, 1922. Serial No. 535,469.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOSHUA B. WILSON, a citizen of the United States of Ame-rica, residing at Manila, in the county of Clarke and State of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements in Steel Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efiicient railroad tie of a construction andl involving materials designed to economize in the use of wood without dispensing with the advantages .derived from the employment of wood as a means of constituting the bed for the rail, it having been sufliciently demonstrated in practice that the cushioning property of wood is advantageous in the support of railway rails, and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same.

Figure 3 is an enlarged sectional view of one end of the tie showing a rail in position thereon.

The tie consists o f a metallic casing 10 of which the ends 11 are preferably hinged as indicated at 12 and are secured in their closed positions by hasps 13 engaged with lugs 14 iitted with cotter pins, and in the ends of the casing are fitted fillers 15 consisting of blocks of suitable wood limited in their inward movement by stops 16 upset from the walls of the casing, said blocks being exposed at their upper sides by cut away portions 17 of the casing to provide transverse rail seats 18. The openings in the casing. to expose the rail seats are eX- tended downwardly at the side walls of the casing to afford clearance and permit of a yielding of the filler blocks under the weight imposed upon'the rails so that the full elasticity of the filler blocks may be utilized, and the replacement of these blocks when worn or injured can be readily effected through the accessible ends of the casing.

The side edges of the casing bounding the openings 17 therein are notched as indicated at 19 for the reception of spikes 2O indicated in Figure 3 and the engagement of these spikes with the rails and said notches serves to interlock the parts so that relative displacement is prevented.

The intermediate portion of the casing between the adjacent ends of the filler blocks is adapted for the. reception of weighting objects as a filler for example of concrete or stone, if the use thereof is deemed necessary in order to secure the desired rigidity or solidity under special conditions of the road bed or ballast, it being obvious that such supplemental iiller may be introduced before positioning one of the terminal filler blocks. f

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is A. tie comprising a. hollow metallic casing which is rectangular in transverse section, the top wall of the casing being provided with transversely disposed openings the end portions of which extend down into the side walls of the casing, the top wall of the casing being provided at the edges of said openings with notches adapted to receive spikes, stops mounted upon the inner surface of the bottom wall of the casing and spaced from the ends thereof and disposed transversely of the said bottom wall and having their upper edges spaced from the under surface of the top Wall of the casing, endl panels hinged to the ends of the bottom wall of the casing and adapted to close against the ends ofthe top and side walls thereof, angular hasps hinged to the free edge portions of the panels and adapted to engage over the end portions of the top wall of the casing and blocks fitting in the end portions of the casing between the stops and the panels whereby the hasps and the stops are disposed at the opposite diagonal corners of the blocks and the openings and spike notches are disposed over the upper intermediate portions of the blocks.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

lJoer-rua B. wiLsoN. 

